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Guaranteed Human. Hold on. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The breakfast club. You're all finished or y'all's done. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Charlemagne de Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren La Rosa is here as well. We got some special guests in the building. Who we got? Who we got? Icons, some legends.

They're back.

This their second time in the building. Who we got?

Who we got?

Some icons, some legends. They're back. This is their second time on the show. Ladies and gentlemen, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Welcome. The icons. Thank you for having us. How are y'all? Man, a little wet because it's raining. Y'all stay true to the uniform, though. Now, you know, you're just the suit.

They've got the suit on today.

No, no, we got to, no, we, you know, we, you know, we, it's given.

It's winter.

Uh-huh. You'll stay true to the uniform now Now you know They don't have the suit on today No no we gotta know We're giving It's winter It's like you know We're trying to be You gotta stay warm That's right Well how y'all feeling first of foremost? Oh I feel great man You know Busy I like that But if I'm not busy I gotta get busy Being busy's just what it is. Do the younger artists reach out to you guys like they should? I mean, because you put up so many hits on the board, so many points on the scoreboard. I wonder if the younger artists really say, you know what, I got to tap in with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Sometimes, sometimes. I mean, what happens now is because so many of the artists are tapping into the 80s and the 90s, they're either sampling our stuff or they'll just call and say, hey, well, you could get down with me and do some stuff. You know, so, yeah, so that definitely's happening, which I think is very cool, you know. And if you don't know, if you're just joining us, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, icons,

they work with artists from Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Prince, Usher, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, George Michael, Boyston, New Edition, Shaka Khan, Tony Braxton, her, SOS band, Yolanda Adams, just to name a few. I don't even like to say that y'all worked with those artists. those artists worked with y'all. Yeah. Because y'all shaped, y'all shaped culture.

Yes. There was a period where y'all sound is what absolutely positively shaped culture. Well, it's a team sport. You know, it's a team sport. I mean, we work with really talented people. I always say we work with talented people. They make us look good, you know? So that's what it is. and it's a team sport even

you know us being here with y'all today

because we could make all the music we would want to look good, you know? So that's what it is. And it's a team sport even, you know, us being here

with y'all today because we could make all the music we would want to. And if there wasn't

a delivery system where people could actually hear it without y'all talking us up or playing

our songs and that, it's like the treat that falls in the force and nobody knows about it. So Terry

has a theory on that. He says, we don't make hits.

We just make music.

Y'all make it hits.

Everybody makes it.

Everybody makes it.

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